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欼

欼

Translingual

Han character

欼 (radical 76 欠+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 水水水水人 (EEEEO), four-corner 17482, composition ⿰叕欠)

  1. to bite, to chew
  2. gobble up, gulp down
  3. (Cantonese) to use one's teeth and hands to break something such as a string

References

  • KangXi: page 568, character 20
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16103
  • Dae Jaweon: page 957, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2144, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+6B3C

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 欼

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (叕) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
蝃 *tɯːds, *tjod
欼 *sʰrɯʔ
綴 *tods, *tod
醊 *tods, *tod
畷 *tods, *tod
啜 *tods, *djods, *tod, *tʰjod, *djodd
餟 *tods, *tod
腏 *tods, *toːd, *tod
錣 *tods, *rtoːd
輟 *tods, *tod
娺 *tul, *rtoːd
窡 *rtoːd, *rtoːd
鵽 *rtoːd, *rtoːd, *toːd
掇 *toːd, *tod
剟 *toːd, *tod
裰 *toːd
敠 *toːd, *sʰlod
惙 *tod
罬 *tod, *ktod
叕 *tod
歠 *tʰjod
逫 *tud

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 欼
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 初 (19)
Final (韻) 之 (19)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 初紀切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡ʃʰɨX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ʈ͡ʂʰɨX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡ʃʰieX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ʈ͡ʂʰɨX/
Li
Rong		 /t͡ʃʰiəX/
Wang
Li		 /t͡ʃʰĭəX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ʈ͡ʂʰiX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 chǐ
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 欼
Reading # 1/1
No. 17777
Phonetic
component		 叕
Rime
group		 之
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 𠟴
Old
Chinese		 /*sʰrɯʔ/
Notes 集韻右從已爲正體，應爲從啜省巳聲之字，本非叕聲

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